Overall Green Earthquake alert in Japan on 25 Dec 2016 23:27 UTC

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M 4.6 in Japan on 25 Dec 2016 23:27 UTC

Event summary

This earthquake can have a low humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID	EQ 1101797
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.6M
Depth:	Km
Lat/Lon:	39.7454 , 143.1421
Event Date:	25 Dec 2016 23:27 UTC 26 Dec 2016 09:27 Local
Exposed Population:	No people within 100km
Inserted at:	25 Dec 2016 23:52 UTC

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us10007mrp	Scaled population (vector)	n.a
	C1 earthquake	n.a
	C2 earthquake	n.a
	Country Vulnerability	n.a
	INFORM_normalised	n.a

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